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Jun 24, 2014

Pham on Boko Haram’s Latest Abduction

By J. Peter Pham

The Osun Defender cites testimony from Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the terrorist organization Boko Haram:

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Jun 18, 2014

Pham on Stalled Search for Kidnapped Girls

By J. Peter Pham

The Wall Street Journal quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the stalled search for the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist organization Boko Haram:

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Jun 16, 2014

Pham on the Ongoing Struggle Against Boko Haram

By J. Peter Pham

The Osun Defender cites congressional testimony from Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the ongoing struggle against Boko Haram:

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Jun 13, 2014

Pham: Boko Haram Has a “Diversified and Resilient Model” to Support Itself

By J. Peter Pham

Scripps Howard Foundation Wire cites congressional testimony from Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the ongoing struggle against Boko Haram:

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AfricaSource

Jun 12, 2014

Nigeria’s Boko Haram: More virulent, more capable, ‘closer to a classic guerrilla insurgency’

By AfricaSource

Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant movement has grown increasingly virulent since 2009, a change visible in the group’s capacity, tactics and ideology, according to J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. Pham testified before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations on June 11, nearly […]

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Jun 12, 2014

Pham: Boko Haram is a “Full-Fledged Insurgency”

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham is quoted by Voice of America on the ongoing struggle against Boko Haram: 

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Jun 11, 2014

Pham Testifies on the Ongoing Struggle Against Boko Haram

By J. Peter Pham

Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham testified before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the ongoing struggle against Boko Haram:

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Jun 9, 2014

Meservey: Do Not Negotiate for the Chibok Schoolgirls

By Joshua Meservey

Africa Center Assistant Director Joshua Meservey writes for The Hill on why Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan should not negotiate with the Boko Haram members who abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in April:

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Jun 4, 2014

Bruton on Upcoming Africa Summit

By Bronwyn Bruton

Voice of America quotes Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton on the upcoming US/Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington:

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New Atlanticist

Jun 3, 2014

Nigeria’s Missing Daughters: What a Hashtag Might Do

By Justine Jablonska and James Rupert

On the night of April 14, 2014, armed men of Nigeria’s puritanical Boko Haram movement drove cargo trucks across the arid scrubland of northeast Nigeria, rumbling up an unlit, dirt road in the town of Chibok. They stopped at the Government Girls’ Secondary School. Shouting in the dark, they ordered the more than 200 boarding […]

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